Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets...

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is...

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann,...

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and...

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his...

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of...

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his...

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...

Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the...

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery.

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of...

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed...

Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New...

In this comedy, Iris Berben plays a mysterious, supernaturally beautiful girl from another planet, who confuses and flusters the men on earth, where...

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young...